Minimum Wage Increase
The San Diego minimum wage will be increasing to $17.25 per hour, effective 12/22/2024, and this increase will have a cascading impact on all casual-restricted student employee pay ranges. Please reference the 2025 Minimum Wage Pay Ranges table below for a full breakdown of the impact of this new minimum wage. UCPC will automatically manage the wage implementation to bring all students up to the new minimum rate for their respective title codes. Students whose salaries are equivalent to the new minimum rate for their title code (or above) will not be affected by the wage implementation. See below for more information and instructions for submitting adjustments for your casual-restricted student employees, and/or positions.
2025 Minimum Pay Rates
Requesting Above Minimum Equity
If a department would like to adjust student wages ABOVE the new minimum rates, you must submit an email to the Student Employment Office to request an Equity Increase. The Justification = “In order to maintain a stable work force and due to the 12/22/2024 new minimum wage increase….”.
If you need to submit a request for multiple students, you may use an Excel spreadsheet with pertinent information:
- Legal Name
- UCPath Employee ID
- UCPath Position Number
- PID
- New Hourly Rate
- Justification
You may use the Equity Increase Request Template to create your request, and then submit via email to studentemployment@ucsd.edu.
SEO understands it may take some time for departments to determine and receive funding approvals. Therefore, we will extend the deadline to Friday, February 28, 2025, to submit all student equity and position increase requests with an effective date of 12/22/2024. Any submissions received after Feb. 28, 2025, will be approved effective at the beginning of the next biweekly pay period.
Job Posting Pay Rate Increase Request
Departments who need to update their Handshake Job posting pay rates above the new minimum rate must submit a “Position Equity Request”. If you need to submit multiple position equity requests, you may use an Excel spreadsheet and include the pertinent information:
- Working Title/Payroll Title
- Most Recent Handshake Job ID
- Current Hourly Rate
- New Hourly Rate
- Justification
Note: you may not arbitrarily increase a rate ABOVE the new minimum pay rate for the title code without a prior Position Equity approval. If you do not submit a request and your job is already at or above the new minimum pay rate for their classification, you must continue paying at that approved rate.
You may use the Position Equity Request Template to create your request, and then submit via email to studentemployment@ucsd.edu.
SEO understands it may take some time for departments to determine and receive funding approvals. Therefore, we will extend the deadline to Friday, February 28, 2025, to submit all student equity and position increase requests with an effective date of 12/22/2024. Any submissions received after Feb. 28, 2025, will be approved effective at the beginning of the next biweekly pay period.
Current Positions in Handshake
If you have jobs currently posted at the minimum rate for their title code, and the posting is set to expire sometime between January 2025 and June 2025, we are granting a ONE-time exception to allow departments to edit the posting to reflect the new minimum wage. The new minimum wage will need to be updated within the job description, as well as in the custom salary range field.